Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker (Dork Diaries, #6) by Rachel Renée Russell

Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker (Dork Diaries, #6) Reviews

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  [S] Bibliophage

  I'm on my 30s already but yes, I really enjoy reading this book (series). Nikki and Brandon's cute love/crush story makes anyone who is in my age to reminisce about their first crush and the time they unintentionally broke our hearts.
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  meiramcb

  I would absolutely adored this book more if I'm younger than my age now BUT STILL. I love Nikki's character and she's growing up! Ha. Briana and Oliver are so cute! And never forget Nikki and Brandon! The sweetest thing :')
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  Jenny / Wondrous Reads

  Holiday Heartbreak is the sixth (yes, sixth!) book in the excellent Dork Diaries series. I'm not sure where the time's gone since book one was published, but Nikki's now getting very grown up and things finally seem to be progressing with her crush, Brandon. Yay!
  
  In this book, Nikki is getting mixed messages from Brandon and, thanks to a not-so-handy magazine article, she thinks he doesn't like her. Of course, Queen Bee Mackenzie is interfering as per usual, leaving Nikki a bit confused. There's also a school dance where the girls have to ask the boys, which causes all kinds of anxiety among the students. Ah, adolescence; how I never wish to go back there!
  
  Usually I find that after six books a series can become somewhat repetitive, but thankfully that isn't the case here. Each Dork Diaries book seems to be even better than the last one, with more drama and laughs than expected. I think Holiday Heartbreak is actually my favourite of the series so far, and if I had the next book I would have read it straight away!
  
  Aimed at the 9+ age range, the Dork Diaries series is easily the best available for girls of that age. I really do love it and would have absolutely adored it when I was younger - funny books have always been a favourite of mine and they still are now. Dork Diaries is effortlessly entertaining, includes lots of drawings to compliment the text and should be on every girl's book shelf. Really, I think they should just be mandatory reading - Nikki Maxwell is a great character to read about and is the best Dork around!
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  Sophie Crane

  You simply must read this book it is really really really really good it has so many surprises and every page leaves you hanging, you feel so embarrassed for Nikki that you don't know whether she'll have a happy ending with Brandon and Mackenzie finally gets pay back, read the book and find out!
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  Jonathan Van Nest

  Dork Diaries: Holiday Heartbreak
  Probably the worst book I have ever read in my entire life. This heap of cow dung was farted out by Rachel Renee Russell. This novel was concerning our infernal main character; Nikki as she goes through brain-melting drama. The book can hardly be categorised as having a plot, it’s more like this girl rambles incoherently into her diary and we are supposed to laugh. Never in my life have I seen a worse representation of pre-teen human beings. This girl is supposed to be a likable character while she comes off as just evil, making what she categorises as mistakes but come off more as hate-filled acts of psychopathy and brutality. I think that lightning was captured in a bottle with Diary of a Wimpy Kid, beautifully illustrating the inner frustrations and thought process of the youth of the western world but DD is just a failure in all ways Diary of a Wimpy Kid was successful. The way this book was written is very bizarre and irritating with varying sizes of text, unnecessary use of exclamation points and smiley faces which, from a literary standpoint, is sloppy and pandering. This book comes off not so much as a novel but more like the diaries of a Psychopathic young woman who cares about nothing other than dancing with her air-headed crush. The illustrations in this book are simply horrendous. Looking at them is like a kick to my testicals, they give me the eye-equivalent of a nose bleed, they are clustered, unattractive, awkward and overall unpleasant to look at. DOAWK had pictures that were simple but I thought that a kid had drawn them and I think they even did a good job of conveying the story in a humorous way. It looks like Rachel really wanted to look better than DOAWK by having more human-appearing, detailed images but it failed so badly because they are so uncomfortable to look at. All of the characters don’t have fingers as much as they have mittens on all the time which I can’t even begin to understand why, it only adds the weirdness of the images. If you asked what the worst part of this book was, I would definitely say it was the main character; probably the most unintentionally horrible person in literature. Greg from DOAWK had some very unkind and mean spirited moments but this girl is just awful, my mouth was agape for the whole time due to how shallow and cruel she was. She created infernal dramas for no reason and her intentions were always so confused. She is uncomfortably obsessed and an over-all terrible representation of our modern youth. Rachel clearly does not understand anything about what it is like to grow up or be in those situations. It would make me sick if I discovered that this character was in any way based off of a real person because whoever it is desperately needs psychological analysis. The style in which this book is written is disgustingly inept. It at some points wants to be a simple DOAWK style journal with occasional unrelated stories and instances that don’t necessarily contribute to the story, at other points it wants to act as a straight forward story, jam-packed with vomit-inducing stereotypes and archetypes which simply do not exist in the real world. Unfortunately for this heap of pandering vomit, it fails as a traditional, coherent story and as a DOAWK style journal. As I said earlier, DOAWK deviated occasionally from the story into little stories that were charming and delightful. When this book does it, it is simply cringe-worthy. Almost always, DOAWK would, even if it was minimal, bring these little stories so that they had at least something slightly to do with the story. In Dork Diaries, when it does little deviations, it is simply awful. It tries to tell these stories that, from what I can tell, are trying to exist in the realms of reality but are just painful to read the author stumbles through the text trying to be humorous. The worst of these little sub-stories was where our main character was going to swim class and, for some reason, adorns a floating pool toy to insure she will not sink when she swims, the device then, sadly, gets stuck to her waist and she is humiliated by her swim class. This story hurt me on levels that I had only felt when family-members died or when I watched terrorist acts on the television. And as I said earlier, this little sub-story has absolutely nothing to do with the overall story and it doesn’t even make very much sense that they are having a swim class in early February. I can imagine that many would think that I am not the intended demographic for this book and that is something I fully acknowledge. I had also stumbled across and read a Barbie book and a My Little Pony book and both of them, while I did not enjoy them; I acknowledged that, for their demographic, they were decent and harmless. I feel as though this book is actually harmful. Should any young girl look to this monster of a character and think that these actions are ok is terrifying. All of the advertisements of Dork Diaries feature a hip, cool, stylish girl and so do all of the dreadful pictures in the book and if they wanted to portray a flawed main character, her appearance would be far different. She is, most undeniably, the character that is meant to be related to and always feels justified in all of her acts and yet is filled with such wickedness. With Diary of a Wimpy kid, the cover and the illustrations portray a not very attractive, indifferent pre-teen who is, as soon as you see him, not a perfect guy. I am all for flawed main characters but, especially with children, when your mentally deranged protagonist is seen wearing trendy clothing and winking with an appearance of pure-self justification in all of the pictures in the book, it is simply terrible. Greg in DOAWK was obviously sometimes having some inner turmoil when he did something bad and if not, he did get in some sort of trouble for it. It showed that when you do bad things, there are going to be some unpleasant repercussions but with Nikki in Dork Diaries, she gets away with almost all of her wickedness, she doesn’t even learn any sort of lesson, she just keeps on prancing through her cutesy, fruity little world. I hate this book so much, I hope that if you have not read it, you do not.
  
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  Anna

  Υπαρξιακών και... ερωτικών προβλημάτων συνέχειας, ιδίως όταν η γιορτή του Αγίου Βαλεντίνου πλησιάζει και πρέπει να καλέσεις το αγόρι που σου αρέσει στο χορό του σχολείου (παρεπιπτόντως: δεν είναι λίγο εξτρίμ να ενθαρρύνει το σχολείο τέτοιες δραστηριότητες, ή εγώ είμαι μια οπισθοδρομική συντηρητικιά; Πάντως χαίρομαι που δεν κλήθηκα στο σχολείο να καλέσω κάποιο αγόρι σε ραντεβού!!!)
  
  Και άντε, το καλείς.... Πού θα βρεις το σωστό φόρεμα τελευταία στιγμή; Εδώ έρχεται να βοηθήσει η μικρή αδερφούλα (hail στις μικρές αδερφούλες, το έχουμε ξαναπεί αν και εδώ κάποια στιγμή ήταν για ξύλο!)
  
  Αυτή η σειρά για τα μικρά κορίτσια είναι μια αγκαλιά συμπαράστασης ότι υπάρχουν και χειρότερα... Για τα μεγάλα κορίτσια είναι μια χαριτωμένη υπενθύμιση αναμνήσεων!!! Μου αρέσει πάρα πολύ ο τρόπος που είναι γραμμένο το βιβλίο που ανυπομονώ κάθε φορά για το επόμενο!!!
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  soph (taylor’s version)

  I REMEMBER THIS BEING MY FAVORITE IN THE SERIEs. I WANT TO REREAD SOON
  
  Post read
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  2.5* Believe it or not, this book is probably my least favorite in the series. The miscommunication and Nikki’s overreactions are frustrating and repetitive to say the least. Also I read the line:
  
  “Brandon gave a crooked smile.”
  
  …about 4 or 5 times. I’m not sure why, but that line specifically makes me cringe.
  
  This series is too insane to be real.
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  Anfal Sk

  I want to read it now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Ivy

  it’s a lifestyle🤯
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  Ashley

  A girl named Nikki Maxwell goes to a school called Westchester Country Day (WCD), at this school she is in 8th grade. WCD is a expensive private school so Nikki's dad got her a scholarship. What is the scholarship for? Nikki's dad is the schools exterminator. She is so ashamed about it. Although without her dad's scholarship she would have never met her new best friends Chole and Zoey. Also she would have never met her major crush Brandon. One thing Nikki hates about this school is her enemy Mackenzie.
  
  She is the most popular girl in school and Nikki is the dorkiest. Also both of them are crushing on Brandon. At her school she already has enough problems but at home Nikki also has an annoying little sister named Briana. She is always bothering and embarrassing Nikki. Who will Brandon pick Nikki or Mackenzie? Well you will find out in this book because I don't want to give anything away for you.This was I book that was so juicy and romantic I just could not put it down. I hope you like it.
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  Taylor

  I just finished Dork Diaries #6.
  Nikki hopes Brandon and her can go to the Sweet Heart Dance!
  But with an embarrassing photo, texts, an enemy, worries, the flu, and a crazy little sister will this be the best night of Nikki's life?
  I like how none of the characters change completely in this series. Nikki is still funny and dorky, Mackenzie is still rich and mean. No personalities change.
  I sense this book will be hit because of the humor and creativity the author used.
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  tiffany

  The back and forth Nikki went through wondering if Brandon really liked her or not felt kind of repetitive and boring. Ending was funny and good though.
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  huriya

  “so cry yourself a river, build a bridge and get OVER it”
  
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  lee’ah

  I think this book was so good, I loved it so much I read it in one day!! It’s definitely a read to relax to and does not need a lot of mantle power to understand what is going on.
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  Nash (all too unwell)

  Dork diaries is one of my faves
  I really love this series....
  The sketches r the best
  I love Nikki. And Brandon and Chloe and Zoey
  The thing with this book is that it is super relatable....I read these books wenever im sad.They help me cheer up!!!
  I loved this particular book..
  4.5 stars
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  Jayla

  This book was really good. I have read all of the other ones more than twice each. I found the ending to be quite predictable and it also didn't made sense. I mean, why didn't Brandon tell Nikki he lost his phone? He said he never got time to tell her but he talked to her multiple times. He could have told her at crazy burger or something. Plus I knew by the texts coming from Brandon's phone that they were from Mackenzie. He would never say something that rude to Nikki! Plus in all of the other books Mackenzie always planed some scheme on Nikki to mess up her life.
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  Courtney Hatcher

  OMG OMG OMG OMG I JUST FINISHED THIS BOOK AND I LOVED IT!! Aww I love Brandon and Nikki so much. I HOPE THEY KISSED IN THE END IT WAS PRACTICALLY FORESHADOWING IT!!! Omg I hate Mackenzie so much!! It's like Regina George in book form. SHE IS SO EVIL. And omg I will say Brandon DID annoy me in this book. With all that stuff and fighting going on, it was getting on my nerves!! I cannot wait to read the next book, even though it's already out. Hope to pick it up soon, must know answers!!!!! :D
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  Noemi

  Loved this book especially the ending. It has a great overall message of not giving up. Brandon started texting Nikki all these rude thins bit when Nikki asked him why it turns out that Brandon didn't send those messages. Mackenzie told Nikki that she asked him to the sweet heart dance . But Nikki didn't have the guts to ask him. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy drama and humor. Also one last thing is that this is personally one of my favorite books of all time. :)
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  Chloe Resendez

  This book was awesome!!! I can't believe how hard it was for Nikki to actually ask Brandon an important question (You have to read the book to know what the question was). And yes, I agree, this book was by far the the best!!!! When you see books with hearts on the front cover,get ready because it is going to be pretty tragic. I can't wait to read the next one.
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  Studio B

  
  In this book, Nikki Maxwell's relationship with Brandon starts sliding downhill, and fast. All her problems just happen to fall around Valentines day, which leaves her wondering if she can save her relationship before the big dance.
  Watch my SKIT from miss bri-bris salon chapter from this book HERE
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcat...
  XOXO!
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  Sarah⭐ The Ultimate Book Hoarder

  IT'S SO OBVIOUS NOW AS AN ADULT THAT HE LIKES HER AND NIKKI ACTUALLY DRIVES ME INSANE
  
  as a kid I was like omagosh does he like her or not?! but now???? OMG THIS MISCOMMUNICATIONNNNNNNN NIKKI JUST LET THE MAN SPEAK ASDFGHJKL
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  mimi (taylor’s version)

  At the time, this was already my genre of book: funny, well-written and with useless drama.
  Loved it, I should have read more of this series.
  
  ↠ 3 stars
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  Rehan Abd Jamil

  My first dork diaries :)
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  jana ♡

  god when is it my turn
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  cris ‧₊˚✩彡

  nikki and brandon r so cute otp ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹